SSV 1846 Ulm

I think the pictures are first class Bayern Gull when you consider the shooting conditions and thanks for putting them up.

It does seem a very strange way to go about things when a club has gone bust. I can see the reason for not playing for any points and the effect such a nothing game would have on the gate.

Do you know who pays to the players wages and covers all the out goings and expenses? I can't see how a club that has gone bust would have the money, so do the German FA pay it all?

So they would never stand any chance of filling that big stadium them ;D

What your pictures highlight is how horrible it is to have a running track around a football pitch. In some of your shots the pitch just looks so far away.

I never like watching a game from behind a goal as its hard to see whats going on up the other end. In one shot that is taken from behind one of the goals you would defiantly need a pair of binoculars to see the action at the other end of the pitch.

I wonder how West Ham fans are going to enjoy their new stadium they are getting once the Olympics finish.

Ulm. Known for being the birthplace of Albert Einstein and the tallest steeple in the world at 160.9 metres (the tallest structure in the world built before the 20th Century). It now looks like it's also home to the world's brightest floodlights.

Nice photos despite the glare.

Ulm Minster is a Lutheran church located in Ulm, Germany. Although sometimes referred to as Ulm Cathedral because of its great size, the church is not a cathedral as it has never been the seat of a bishop.

Ulm Minster is a famous example of Gothic ecclesiastical architecture. Like Cologne Cathedral (Kölner Dom), also begun in the Gothic era, Ulm Minster was not completed until the 19th century. It is the tallest church in the world and the tallest structure built before the 20th century, with a steeple measuring 160.9 metres (528 ft) and containing 768 steps. From the top level at 143 m (469 ft) there is a panoramic view of Ulm in Baden-Württemberg and Neu-Ulm in Bavaria and, in clear weather, a vista of the Alps from Säntis to the Zugspitze. The final stairwell to the top (known as the third Gallery) is a tall, spiraling staircase that has barely enough room for one person.

Construction
In the 14th century, the parish church of Ulm was located outside the walled city. The burghers of Ulm decided to erect a new church within the perimeters of the city and to finance the costs of the erection.

In 1377 the foundation stone was laid. The planned church was to have three naves of equal height, a main spire on the west and two steeples above the choir. In 1392 Ulrich Ensingen (associated with Strasbourg Cathedral) was appointed master builder. It was his plan to make the western church tower the tallest spire, which it remains in the present day.

The church, consisting of the longitudinal naves and the choir, covered by a temporary roof, was consecrated in 1405. However, structural damage, caused by the height of the naves and the weight of the heavy vaulting, necessitated a reconstruction of the lateral naves which were supported by a row of additional column in their centre.

In a referendum in 1530/31, the citizens of Ulm converted to Protestantism during the Reformation. Ulm Minster became a Lutheran Church. Although as large as many cathedrals, Ulm is not a cathedral, the responsible bishop of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Württemberg - member of the Evangelical Church in Germany - resides in Stuttgart.

In 1543 construction work was halted at a time when the steeple had reached a height of some 100 metres (330 ft). The halt in the building process was caused by a variety of factors which were political and religious (the Reformation, the Thirty Years' War, the War of the Spanish Succession) as well as economic (the discovery of the Americas in 1492 and of the sea route to India in 1497, leading to a shift in trade routes and commodities). One result was economic stagnation and a steady decline, preventing major public expenditure.

In 1817 work resumed and the three steeples of the church were completed. Finally, on 31 May 1890 the building was completed.

World War II
A devastating air raid hit Ulm on 17 December 1944, which destroyed virtually the entire town west of the church to the railway station and north of the church up to the outskirts. The church itself was barely damaged. However, almost all the other buildings of the town square (münsterplatz) were severely hit and some 80% of the medieval centre of Ulm was destroyed.

Bayern Gull, I wasn't clever enough or knowledgeable enough to write my post, most of it came from Wikipedia and we know not everything on there is factual or 100% correct.

Looking at the pictures I found, there is no way I would ever go up that steeple in a million years. ;D